Friday, March 29, 2024

CNA news recap…

Grand Falls-Windsor take Business Case title for second year

November 23 – The quartet of CNA students joined a dozen teams at the college’s Grand Falls-Windsor campus to compete in the 12th annual Business Case competition, where for the second year in a row, the title was taken by a home team – On Trac Solutions. Among the competitors were: five teams from the St. John’s Prince Philip Drive campus; three teams from Grand Falls-Windsor; Clarenville and Corner Brook had one team apiece; competing Distributed Learning (DL) students met for the first time; and, one team that travelled from overseas to represent CNA’s Doha, Qatar campus. Read more at https://goo.gl/cgJLLX  

CNA, ATMOCEAN present on Lord’s Cove aquaculture research projects

September 28 – Christopher White, Chief Operating Officer of U.S.-based Atmocean, joined lead researcher Dr. Mike Graham of CNA’s Wave Environment Research Centre (WERC) at Ridge Road campus in St. John’s. Numerous stakeholders, including those from government, industry and funding agencies, were invited, along with CNA students and faculty. Information was presented on the status of research and innovation projects at Lord’s Cove on the Burin Peninsula. Collaboration has been ongoing between the wave energy developer and CNA’s Burin campus to test a wave-powered pump (Atmocean catches Canadian wave), and provide water to the land-based integrated multi-trophic aquaculture system. Lord’s Cove is home to some of the largest shore-bound waves and storm surges in Newfoundland and Labrador each year. Read more at https://goo.gl/4Dx1pm   

CNA and WRDC celebrate program delivery success

May 12 – CNA and Women in Resource Development Corporation (WRDC) celebrated the 75th offering of Orientation to Trades and Technology (OTT) at CNA’s Corner Brook campus. The OTT program, designed to help women make informed decisions about trades and technology careers, was developed by WRDC and offered at various CNA campuses. The first OTT program was delivered at the college’s Bay St. George campus in October 1999 as a pilot project. Since that time, the program has been continually delivered throughout the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, producing more than 800 graduates.  Read more at https://goo.gl/UwvNkH

CNA grads presented with seven MusicNL Awards

October 20 – Waiting to hear one’s name called from the podium at an awards show can be nerve-wracking, but for CNA graduates, it was a seven-time celebration during the Music Newfoundland and Labrador (MusicNL) Awards in St. John’s. CNA had contenders vying for 11 MusicNL Awards. Topping the list was second-year Music: Performance, Business & Technology student Jacob Cherwick of Kubasonics, which swept away the trophies for all of their nominations, taking home awards for Group of the Year, Folk/Roots Artist of the Year, and the only award decided by public voting, Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year. Town House, which includes Sound Recording & Production graduate Michael Dray, was one of two winners of the Rising Star of the Year, while CNA Music: Performance, Business & Technology graduate Kellie Loder’s video for her single ‘Boxes’ won Music Video of the Year. Read more at https://goo.gl/j1Ksbj  

Enactus World Cup leaves lasting impression on CNA students

October 20 – CNA students were still recovering from the trip that they describe as an “amazing experience.” From Sept. 26-28, the group from CNA’s School of Business & Information Technology joined students from 15 schools as part of Team Canada, and more than 3,000 people globally, in London, England for the Enactus World Cup competition. Enactus’ focus is to delve into entrepreneurial ideas to improve community development economically, environmentally and socially. CNA’s teams from Prince Philip Drive, Clarenville and Grand Falls-Windsor campuses were there as observers to support national champion – Enactus Memorial, which placed second overall, and their supporters couldn’t be prouder. Read more at https://goo.gl/1uZVpG  

Small subject, big topic!

February 8 – Dr. Gurinder Kaur Ahluwalia became a first-time author in November 2016; not because she had aspirations of writing a book, rather the scientific community was eager for more information on the subject matter – the applications of chalcogenides S, Se and Te. Dr. Ahluwalia is a physics instructor for Comprehensive Arts & Sciences (CAS) Transfer: College-University program at CNA’s Labrador West campus, and has established an innovative Materials and Nanotechnology Research Laboratory. No stranger to writing, Dr. Ahluwalia had over 70 research papers published in various scientific journals before beginning the writing stage for Applications of Chalcogenides: S, Se and Te. Read more at https://goo.gl/tVvBCc

CNA Student Emergency Fund to the rescue

November 21 – Ask any student and they will tell you they are stressed out on a daily basis just trying to succeed – throw in an emergency, and they may be forced to abandon their studies and dreams. CNA’s Student Emergency Fund aims to avoid that possibility by giving help when needed to get them through a major hurdle. The fund has existed since 2015, but this year was the first time CNA partnered with Giving Tuesday – known as the global day of giving ­– on Tuesday, Nov. 28 to raise awareness and money for the cause. Giving Tuesday is also known as the opening day of the giving season and traditionally follows Black Friday. It is an opportunity for charities, companies and individuals to rally for their favourite causes. Read more at https://goo.gl/YAT4Sz

CNA students bring home five medals from Skills Canada National Competition

June 7 – CNA students made five trips to the podium at the 2017 Skills Canada National Competition (SCNC) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The event, held from May 31 – June 3, had over 550 competitors from all 10 provinces and three territories compete in more than 40 competition areas, including: employability, construction, information technology, manufacturing, and service and transportation sectors. Twenty-two of the 26 post-secondary students, of the 49-person Team Newfoundland and Labrador, were from CNA.  https://goo.gl/H1UdeJ

Grand Falls-Windsor take Business Case title for second year

November 23 – The quartet of CNA students joined a dozen teams at the college’s Grand Falls-Windsor campus to compete in the 12th annual Business Case competition, where for the second year in a row, the title was taken by a home team – On Trac Solutions. Among the competitors were: five teams from the St. John’s Prince Philip Drive campus; three teams from Grand Falls-Windsor; Clarenville and Corner Brook had one team apiece; competing Distributed Learning (DL) students met for the first time; and, one team that travelled from overseas to represent CNA’s Doha, Qatar campus. Read more at https://goo.gl/cgJLLX  

CNA students win big at CNA-Qatar Business Case competition

February 23 – The Newfoundland and Labrador team, Blended Solutions from CNA, surpassed the goal they had set for themselves as they walked into the Business Case Competition at College of the North Atlantic-Qatar. While their hope was to make the finals, they never expected to walk away with the top honours against nine international teams. Blended Solutions was comprised of students from Ridge Road and Prince Philip Drive campuses, including Comprehensive Arts and Science student Tyler Power of Tors Cove, third-year Business Management (Human Resources) student Melanie Pumphrey of St. John’s, second-year Business Management (Marketing) student Peter Smith of St. John’s, and third-year Industrial Engineering student Tiffany Swain of Calvert on the Southern Shore. Read more at https://goo.gl/BYkHzA  

Infrastructure investments announced for CNA

May 26 – The Honourable Gerry Byrne, then Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Labour, and Gudie Hutchings, Member of Parliament for Long Range Mountains, were joined by Elizabeth Kidd, then Interim President and CEO of CNA, and Stephenville – Port au Port MHA John Finn in Stephenville to announce $6.8 million in infrastructure funding for 10 college campuses. The announcement, funded through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) has the Government of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador each investing nearly $3.4 million into CNA as part of a Renewal and Modernization Project. Read more at https://goo.gl/gdXqNd

Enactus teams win awards at nationals

June 15 – Two teams from CNA travelled to Vancouver, BC to face off against the 61 best Enactus teams in the country at the 2017 Enactus National Exposition. The Enactus CNA’s St. John’s team returned home with three awards. The first, the Genworth Financial Group partnership project award, recognizes the efforts of Enactus CNA St. John’s for its Independent YOU project, a financial literacy program delivered to high school students that focuses mostly on students living in rural Newfoundland. This year the project was delivered to 194 students at 21 secondary schools. The Grand Falls-Windsor team of five students and one faculty advisor also had an impressive competition, placing first runner-up behind the defending world champions from Memorial University. Read more at https://goo.gl/1rnKJ2

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